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1 hour ago

Linux Kernel 7.0 RC6 Arrives with Major Ext4, XFS, and Audio Driver Fixes - OSTechNix Linus Torvalds officially released the sixth release candidate (RC6) for the upcoming Linux Kernel 7.0. Here's what's new in Linux 7.0-rc6.

Linus Torvalds released Linux 7.0-rc6, noting that the recent "calm" was a mirage. This release brings a surge of fixes for Ext4, XFS, and audio drivers.

Full details here: ostechnix.com/linux-kernel...

#Kernel70 #Linuxkernel #RC6 #Releases #Opensource

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4 hours ago

The Most Critical Linux Kernel Breaches of 2025 So Far by George Whittaker The Linux kernel, foundational for servers, desktops, embedded systems, and cloud infrastructure, has been under heightened scrutiny. Several vulnerabilities have been exploited…

[Linux Journal] The Most Critical Linux Kernel Breaches of 2025 So Far

#Linux #LinuxKernel #Security

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5 hours ago

VMScape: Cracking VM-Host Isolation in the Speculative Execution Age & How Linux Patches Respond by George Whittaker Introduction In the world of modern CPUs, speculative execution, where a processor guesses ahead on branches and executes instructions before the actual code path is confirmed,…

[Linux Journal] VMScape: Cracking VM-Host Isolation in the Speculative Execution Age & How Linux Patches Respond

#Linux #LinuxKernel #InfoSec

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5 hours ago

Self-Tuning Linux Kernels: How LLM-Driven Agents Are Reinventing Scheduler Policies by George Whittaker Introduction Modern computing systems rely heavily on operating-system schedulers to allocate CPU time fairly and efficiently. Yet many of these schedulers operate blindly with…

[Linux Journal] Self-Tuning Linux Kernels: How LLM-Driven Agents Are Reinventing Scheduler Policies

#Framework #Linux #LinuxKernel

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5 hours ago

Bcachefs Ousted from Mainline Kernel: The Move to DKMS and What It Means by George Whittaker Introduction After years of debate and development, bcachefs—a modern copy-on-write filesystem once merged into the Linux kernel—is being removed from mainline. As of kernel…

[Linux Journal] Bcachefs Ousted from Mainline Kernel: The Move to DKMS and What It Means

#Linux #LinuxKernel

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@aptivi.bsky.social

7 hours ago

Linux 7.0 RC6 released! Linux 7.0 RC6 is now live for developers and curious users to try out. All the interesting changes from performance improvements to bug fixes have been integrated to this release candidate. The official announcement from the kernel mailing list says: It turns out that rc5 finally starting to calm things down this release cycle was a mirage - with rc6 we're back to many more fixes than are normal for this time in the release.

Linux 7.0 RC6 is now available!

#Linux #Kernel #LinuxKernel #Computers #Laptops #TechNews #TechUpdates

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7 hours ago

From Kernel to Cloud: Open Source Takes On Security Trade-Offs Open-source systems are adopting live patching and isolation technologies to support always-on security and meet enterprise compliance demands in the cloud. The post From Kernel to Cloud: Open…

[Linux Insider] From Kernel to Cloud: Open Source Takes On Security Trade-Offs

#LinuxKernel #OpenSource #InfoSec

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8 hours ago

From Kernel to Cloud: Open Source Takes On Security Trade-Offs Open-source systems are adopting live patching and isolation technologies to support always-on security and meet enterprise compliance demands in the cloud. The post From Kernel to Cloud: Open…

[Linux Insider] From Kernel to Cloud: Open Source Takes On Security Trade-Offs

#LinuxKernel #OpenSource #InfoSec

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10 hours ago

Alpine Linux 3.23.0 released Version 3.23.0 of Alpine Linux has been released. Notable changes in this release include an upgrade to version 3.0 of the Alpine Package Keeper (apk), and replacing the linux-edge package with…

[LWN.net] Alpine Linux 3.23.0 released

#Linux #LinuxKernel

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10 hours ago

[$] The beginning of the 6.19 merge window As of this writing, 4,124 non-merge commits have been pulled into the mainline repository for the 6.19 kernel development cycle. That is a relatively small fraction of what can be expected this time…

[LWN.net] [$] The beginning of the 6.19 merge window

#LinuxKernel #OpenSource

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10 hours ago

Printk Improvement For Linux 6.19 Can Significantly Speed-Up Boot Times For Some Systems The Linux kernel's printk code for logging kernel messages has some useful improvements with the Linux 6.19 kernel...

[Phoronix] Printk Improvement For Linux 6.19 Can Significantly Speed-Up Boot Times For Some Systems

#Linux #LinuxKernel

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11 hours ago

Alpine Linux just got updated (and still supports 32-bit) One of the kernel options is being swapped, and GNOME is being upgraded to 49.

[How-to Geek] Alpine Linux just got updated (and still supports 32-bit)

#GNOME #Linux #LinuxKernel

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11 hours ago

Linux 6.19 Fixes A Thundering Herd Problem For Big NUMA Servers The "timers/core" pull requests for updating Linux kernel timer-related code doesn't tend to be too interesting each kernel cycle, but this time around for Linux 6.19 it is for addressing a problem…

[Phoronix] Linux 6.19 Fixes A Thundering Herd Problem For Big NUMA Servers

#Linux #LinuxKernel

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11 hours ago

Linux 6.19 Will Allow Enforcing IPE Security Checks On Indirectly Executed Scripts Linux's Integrity Policy Enforcement "IPE" module is gaining a useful addition with the in-development Linux 6.19 kernel...

[Phoronix] Linux 6.19 Will Allow Enforcing IPE Security Checks On Indirectly Executed Scripts

#Linux #LinuxKernel #InfoSec

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12 hours ago

Fedora 44 is Replacing Decades-Old Kernel Console with Safer, Modern Alternative It is making a more secure userspace console the default while keeping the old one as a backup.

[It's FOSS] Fedora 44 is Replacing Decades-Old Kernel Console with Safer, Modern Alternative

#Fedora #LinuxKernel

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12 hours ago

Proxmox Backup Server 4.1 Released With Kernel 6.17, ZFS 2.3 Proxmox Backup Server 4.1 adds kernel 6.17, ZFS 2.3, Debian 13.2, and major S3 backend improvements.

[Linuxiac] Proxmox Backup Server 4.1 Released With Kernel 6.17, ZFS 2.3

#Debian #LinuxKernel

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12 hours ago

Linux 6.19 Goes Ahead And Enables Microsoft C Extensions Support Last month I reported on Linux 6.19 looking to enable Microsoft C Extensions support throughout the Linux kernel with setting the -fms-extensions compiler option to allow Microsoft C Extensions when…

[Phoronix] Linux 6.19 Goes Ahead And Enables Microsoft C Extensions Support

#Linux #LinuxKernel

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12 hours ago

Sched_EXT With Linux 6.19 Improves Recovering For Misbehaving eBPF Schedulers The Linux kernel's innovative sched_ext code for being able to easily write extensible task schedulers using eBPF programs has some nice enhancements merged for Linux 6.19...

[Phoronix] Sched_EXT With Linux 6.19 Improves Recovering For Misbehaving eBPF Schedulers

#Linux #LinuxKernel

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13 hours ago

FOSS Weekly #25.49: Kernel 6.18 'LTS', Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, Linus Torvalds on BSOD, Obsidian Distro and More Linux Stuff And we enter the Christmas month.

[It's FOSS] FOSS Weekly #25.49: Kernel 6.18 'LTS', Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, Linus Torvalds on BSOD, Obsidian Distro and More Linux Stuff

#Ubuntu #Linux #LinuxKernel

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13 hours ago

Linux Bootloaders: Installing and Configuring rEFInd, Limine, and GRUB In following the modularity of Linux, we will look at the Bootloader. A Bootloader is software that the hardware loads the Linux kernel into memory. The system Bootloader is the bridge between the…

[Linux.org] Linux Bootloaders: Installing and Configuring rEFInd, Limine, and GRUB

#Linux #LinuxKernel

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13 hours ago

Fedora 44 Cleared To Replace Kernel Console With User-Space KMSCON A proposal was raised a month ago for Fedora Linux 44 to replace the kernel's frame-buffer console "FBCON" with KMSCON in user-space. The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has now…

[Phoronix] Fedora 44 Cleared To Replace Kernel Console With User-Space KMSCON

#Fedora #Linux #LinuxKernel

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13 hours ago

[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for December 4, 2025 Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Rust in Debian; Python comprehensions; asynchronous Zig; BPF and io_uring; C safety; 6.18 statistics; just. Briefs: Landlock; Let's Encrypt…

[LWN.net] [$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for December 4, 2025

#Debian #LinuxKernel #Python

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13 hours ago

Linux 6.18 Officially Promoted To Being An LTS Kernel Not exactly a big surprise but the recently released Linux 6.18 kernel is now officially promoted to being this year's Long Term Support "LTS" kernel...

[Phoronix] Linux 6.18 Officially Promoted To Being An LTS Kernel

#Linux #LinuxKernel

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14 hours ago

Alpine Linux 3.23 Released With Kernel 6.18 Alpine Linux 3.23 introduces kernel 6.18, GCC 15, updated desktops, and package updates across the system.

[Linuxiac] Alpine Linux 3.23 Released With Kernel 6.18

#Linux #LinuxKernel

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14 hours ago

Microsoft ACPI Fan Extensions & Configurable Hibernation Threads For Linux 6.19 The pull requests landing the power management subsystem updates for Linux 6.19 along with the ACPI and thermal control code have landed. There is new hardware support, Microsoft ACPI Fan Extensions…

[Phoronix] Microsoft ACPI Fan Extensions & Configurable Hibernation Threads For Linux 6.19

#Linux #LinuxKernel

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14 hours ago

Linux 6.18 Is Now Listed as the New Long-Term Support Kernel Linux 6.18 is now listed as the new long-term support kernel, officially joining the LTS line on kernel.org for extended maintenance.

[Linuxiac] Linux 6.18 Is Now Listed as the New Long-Term Support Kernel

#Linux #LinuxKernel

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15 hours ago

It’s Official: Linux Kernel 6.18 Will Be LTS, Supported Until December 2027 Linux kernel 6.18 is now officially marked as LTS (Long-Term Support) on the kernel.org website and it will be supported until December 2027.

[9to5Linux] It’s Official: Linux Kernel 6.18 Will Be LTS, Supported Until December 2027

#Linux #LinuxKernel

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15 hours ago

A final stable kernel update for 5.4 Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 5.4.302 stable kernel: This is the LAST 5.4.y release. It is now end-of-life and should not be used by anyone, anymore. As of this point in time,…

[LWN.net] A final stable kernel update for 5.4

#LinuxKernel #OpenSource

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15 hours ago

Linux Kernel 5.4 Reaches End of Life After More Than Six Years of Maintenance Linux 5.4 LTS kernel series has reached end of life after being maintained for more than six years, receiving a total of 302 point releases.

[9to5Linux] Linux Kernel 5.4 Reaches End of Life After More Than Six Years of Maintenance

#Linux #LinuxKernel

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15 hours ago

AMD Zen 6 RAS Preparation, AMD SDCI Features Merged For Linux 6.19 Linus Torvalds just merged another set of pull requests to Git for the in-development Linux 6.19 kernel. With the latest round of merges, there are two separate AMD changes worth highlighting...

[Phoronix] AMD Zen 6 RAS Preparation, AMD SDCI Features Merged For Linux 6.19

#Linux #LinuxKernel #Git

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